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Rory McIlroy, the Boy Wonder seeking to become new superhero of the Masters

March 31 2012, 1:01am, The Times

Out of the darkness: few could have predicted McIlroy's remarkable yearPaul Childs/Action Images

Ask Rory McIlroy about Tiger Woods and you soon realise that golf’s Boy Wonder has come to bury him, not to praise him. How else could you explain that, while the rest of the sporting world (and beyond) was working itself into a frenzy after Woods had won on the PGA Tour in the United States for the first time in 2½ years last weekend, so McIlroy was exhibiting total indifference? On the surface, at least. Was it a case of out of sight, out of mind?

“I didn’t see any of the golf at the weekend,” McIlroy said when asked for his reaction to Woods’s emphatic victory at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill in Florida. “I saw he won by a few…